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Prompt

Asks the user for a list of settings that will be applied to one or more other targets.

The following example lets the user input an username and password and writes these values to user and password settings of FTP server template.

{
    "deploy": {
        "targets": [
            {
                "type": "prompt",
                "name": "FTP server",

                "prompts": [
                    {
                        "text": "Please enter your username",

                        "properties": [ "user" ],
                        "defaultValue": "/my_package_files",

                        "cache": true,
                        "showAlways": true
                    },
                    
                    {
                        "valuePlaceHolder": "Please enter the password for '${user}'",
                        
                        "isPassword": true,
                        "properties": [ "password" ],
                        
                        "cache": true
                    }
                ],
                
                "targets": [ "FTP server template" ]
            },
            
            {
                "name": "FTP server template",
                "type": "ftp",
                
                "isHidden": true,

                "user": "<NO NEED TO SET: This is done by 1st prompt of 'FTP server' target>",
                "password": "<NO NEED TO SET: This is done by 2nd prompt of 'FTP server' target>"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Name	Description
prompts	One or more prompt entry.
targets	One or more target name to deploy to.

Prompts

Name	Description
cache	Save value in cache or not. Default: (false)
defaultValue	The initial value.
description	A description for the entry.
ignoreFocusOut	Set to (true) to keep the input box open when focus moves to another part of the editor or to another window. Default: (true)
isPassword	Input value is secret / a password. Default: (false)
properties	A list of one or more property names inside the target where to write the value to.
showAlways	Always show input box even if cached. Default: (false)
text*	The text for the input box.
type	The value type. Default: string
validator	The path to a script that validates an user input.
validatorOptions	The options for the validator script.
valuePlaceHolder*	The placeholder for the input box.

^{* supports placeholders}

Types

Name	Description
bool, boolean	Convert to a boolean value. Possible value for (true) are: 1, true, yes or y. All other values, expect of an empty string, will be handled as (false).
file	Loads data from a file and parses it as JSON string.
float, number	Convert to a number / float value.
int, integer	Convert to an integer value.
json, object, obj	Parses a value as JSON string.
string	Does no conversion.

Validator script

A script must have a public / exported validate() function:

exports.validate = function(args) {
    // s. https://mkloubert.github.io/vs-deploy/modules/_helpers_.html
    var helpers = args.require('./helpers');

    if (helpers.isEmptyString(args.value)) {
        args.message = 'Value cannot be empty!';
        return false;
    }

    // (true) is the default value
};

The args parameter uses the ValueValidatorModuleExecutorArguments interface.